Do you have a conscience?

The public fallout with the Olmert Kadima government continues. Ynet News is reporting that 30,000 have turned out in Rabin Square to demand that the Israeli government establish an official State Commission to investigate the government’s handling of the Israeli-Lebanon War.

Almost a month after the end of the second Lebanon war, the Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG), in conjunction with the Baltam Forum – representing reserve soldiers – gathered in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, under the banner 'State Commission of Inquiry Now'. Some 30,000 protestors attended.

Carrying signs reading, among others, 'What is there to hide?', 'Conscience demands inquiry' and 'State, state, state', protestors demonstrated their disapprobation of Olmert's investigative efforts thus far.

Chairman of the Baltam forum Roi Ron told Ynet: "We demand a state commission of inquiry to determine how reserve soldiers were sent to war without ammunition, without protection, without food and without water. Soldiers who hadn't trained in years."

Apparently, a number of protesters were carrying signs asking the government the rhetorical question "Do you have a conscience?" Someone needs to ask CBC journalist Nahlah Ayed the same thing.